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VLC update adds in-app extensions, resume playback, Android TV support, more

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<p>Everybody’s favorite open source video player just got even better. The VideoLAN Organization is releasing the stable version of VLC 2.2.0 on Friday, packed with a few goodies ahead of the VLC 3.0.0 release scheduled for later this year. </p><p>The new VLC for Windows, Mac, and Linux rocks a Firefox-style in-app extensions “store,” resume playback, in-app subtitle downloads, and early support for interactive Blu-ray menus.</p><p>Friday’s VLC release isn’t just for the desktop either. For the first time, VideoLAN released major upgrades to all its platforms at once, and even added a few new ones including Android TV, Windows Phone, and Windows RT.</p><p>VideoLan hopes to coordinate future release major releases across all its platforms, but organization president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says he isn’t promising anything just yet since coordinating major releases for all VLC platforms is a monumental task.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2889846/vlc-update-adds-in-app-extensions-resume-playback-android-tv-support-more.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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